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In a changing world, we help people and businesses become future-proof.

Strengthening the one advantage AI can’t replace:

Human Creativity.

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@Markmanson Or keep sacrificing what you want most for what you want right now...

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@mralexthomas Too right.

Be disciplined AND experimental, routine AND playful

Exercise divergent & convergent modes of thought.

Dr Colin Martindale found that creatives didn't posess unique traits but unique COMBINATIONS of traits & were able to oscillate between opposing styles

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@BowTiedOx So true

Dont damn yourself with low standards, your body will start to agree with you

Br like Jack LaLanne: reject the narrowing & softening of expectations, our physiology adapts to what we demand of it

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Creative Tip:

Less is more - dont start a new exciting project the minute you feel stuck during your WIP

Essentialism is about doing one thing to the best of your ability with no distractions before moving on

Dont spread yourself thin. Spin one plate at a time.

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@artfuIchaos 💯 It is.

Much bigger than the career advantages of the 'skill' (which are many)

Reinvention
Identifying & self-engineering opportunities

In a creative life we actually pilot our own ships.

Priceless

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@drjamesdinic Really good. Yes.

"Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."
Naval Ravikant

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@jposhaughnessy I ADORE Robert Anton Wilson, such a refreshing & perceptive thinker he was one of a kind.

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@_sohanjoshi 💯

When information became ubiquitous memorisation lost its value

Now we need:

The critical thinking to evaluate good from bad data

The growth mindset to embrace & capitalise on opportunities &

The creativity to reimagine & self-engineer opportunities for ourselves

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@mralexthomas Absolutely true.

This isn't 'wooly' or 'new-age' at all,
It is demonstrated & endorsed by a dozen neuroscientists & psychologists
Dr. Christian Waugh Dr Robert Emmons, Dr. Alex Korb...

You are healthier, more energetic, more alert & more creative

No wonder you get more done!

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Creative Tip:

The 'Altared' State

Dampen the inner critic with breath work & focused attention before working

Neuroscience (Jha, Huberman, Goleman & Davidson, Kotler) & art agree here (Rick Rubin, Cal Newport, Brian Wilson, Steven Pressfield)

Clear your cache before you start

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@rachkmc Well if it's good enough for Hemingway...

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Creative Tip:

Julia Cameron's (& Dorothea Brande's) Morning Pages are, of course, transformative

-Bypass the inner critic
-Maintain a steady writing habit
& a creative schedule
-It's a journal
-Dump the nagging problems that distract us

They are famous for a reason
They work

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@itsdylanmercer Guilty! 😄

Too beautiful to write in!

But my cheap spiral A5s fill up.

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@NielsHoven It shouldn't be a school's job to teach kids to read

Its too important to leave it to professionals.

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Creative Tip:

Stop when the going is good - leverage Zeigarnik Effect

Ernest Hemingway, Roald Dahl & Henry Miller would all clock off with plenty left ito write, with ideas for what comes next
You'll be excited to return & hit the ground running

A rolling stone gathers no moss

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@SahilBloom Can't think of a better mental health tonic than exercise either

Especially exercise that involves progress, exceeding expectations, and optional discomfort

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@TAR_Kirk Both! That's how you know it is working

But life without growth & intentional learning is a pale shadow

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Creative Tip:

Get outside & expand your mind

From Ruskin, Wordsworth, Shelley to Dorsey, Jobs, &;Feynman. Edison, Crick & Watson, Joseph Paxton Inventors artists & CEOs all inspired outdoors

There are a dozen scientific explanations why creativity really does bloom in nature